Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan stood on the hotel balcony and took the salutes. A child, pink-faced and pudgy like himself, skipped past and Bevan pointed with a laugh: "He is my brother, my brother...
...lightning button to his lapel. Then, to prove how young he still was at 74, he led a procession five blocks through the sultry heat to his headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At a full-dress press conference that afternoon, his eyes looked a little tired, and his pink face seemed slightly drawn with lines of weariness. But as the Veep went through his catalogue of amiable answers and quipped his way through questions about his health, the reporters forgot that age was anything but a delight (yes, he would be nominated; no, he did not want...
...snubbed Gerry, the Queen was neither ill nor standoffish two days later when some 7,000 guests swarmed over Buckingham Palace grounds for a garden party. Peers and plain people, a Maltese Boy Scout, a Sikh naval officer, the president of the Mormon Church, a pink-trousered lady from Pakistan and a bearded artist in a bright green suit were just a few of those among whom the Queen strolled, chatting pleasantly and shaking hands at an average of once every 15 seconds. Even a downpour of rain which sent many guests scuttling into the palace failed to deter...
...Johnson's pink tinge grew rosier during the Spanish civil war and rosier still during World War II, but the Reds were then Britain's "brave Russian allies." The real wave of indignation against Johnson's pronouncements in favor of Soviet Russia reached its crest early last year when the Red Dean journeyed to Moscow to accept a Peace Prize from Stalin. Beaming with pride over his achievement, the dean met the wave of demands for his resignation with the announcement that he had deposited the prize money ($25,000 worth of rubles) in Moscow...
...said that thousands of Chinese schoolchildren had been trained in anti-germ warfare: as soon as the alarm is given, the children spread over the countryside and gather up the germ-carrying insects with chopsticks. This was too much even for Britain's pink and gullible New Statesman and Nation, which had itself taken the germ charges seriously. Now it had to admit that they had been "laughed out of court" by the Red Dean's performance...